(Reuters) – Argentina gained their first title within the World Rugby Sevens Series since 2009 by gorgeous Olympic champions Fiji 29-10 within the closing of the Vancouver leg on Sunday.
Marcos Moneta and Felipe Del Mestre each scored two tries towards the Fijians, who gained the Singapore leg earlier this month.
Argentina had been bronze medallists eventually 12 months’s Tokyo Games.
“You have to dream as a result of goals do come,” stated Argentina head coach Santiago Gomez Cora, who was a participant after they final gained a Cup occasion on the circuit in 2009 in San Diego.
“I liked enjoying on the circuit, however ever since I’ve been a coach this has been the second I’ve been working in direction of, and my gamers should take all of the credit score as a result of they work so onerous they usually wished to win this one for his or her nation a lot.”
South Africa, who completed fifth, lead the sequence with 111 factors after six rounds. Argentina moved up to second on 105 factors, 5 forward of Australia, who completed third in Vancouver.
(Reporting by Manasi Pathak in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
